Industry | iron and steel smelting, casting and rolling |
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Founded | Parkgate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 1823 |
Founder | Samuel Sanderson, Mr Watson |
Fate | taken over |
Successor | Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain 1951; Tube Investments 1956 |
Headquarters | , |
Products | rolled steel and semi-finished casting products |
The Park Gate Iron and Steel Company was a British company that smelted iron ore and turned it into rolled steel and semi-finished casting products. Its works was at Parkgate, South Yorkshire on a triangular site bounded on two sides by the main road between Rotherham and Barnsley (A633) and the North Midland Railway main line between Rotherham Masborough and Cudworth. It also operated ironstone quarries in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.